forerunner
Example Sentences
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Mr Taylor was the the journalist and cotton merchant who founded the newspaper's forerunner, The Manchester Guardian in 1821.
From BBC
A forerunner testing the course then crashed on his run.
From Seattle Times
A forerunner to the study, 1986′s “Improving the Quality of Care in Nursing Homes,” was also a product of the National Academies.
From Seattle Times
Congress also created a new bureau to collect taxes, a forerunner of the Internal Revenue Service, underscoring its commitment to raising revenue this way.
From New York Times
In their attempt at radical transparency about Soviet life, the poet and her collaborators were forerunners of the glasnost that would upend the Soviet system years later.
From Washington Post
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